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Disabilities

Welcome to Roseville Today’s section on disabilities. Featuring a combination of original content, guest posts, inspiring stories, and practical tips. We hope you’ll find this section useful and informative. May it lift you with encouragement, empower you with empathy, and fuel you with compassion.

Autism and Cam Ward

A National Institutes of Health website states that autism spectrum disorder causes "severe and pervasive impairment in thinking, feeling, language, and the ability to...

Osteoarthritis Troubles

Tom Schwartz reads this column in the Blackduck (Minn.) News. Not long ago, he emailed to provide information about knee walkers, one of which...

ARC member Gloria Steinbring

Recently, I interviewed Gloria Steinbring during an ARC convention. At more than 140,000 members, ARC claims to be the world's largest community-based organization of...

Dyslexia didn’t stop psychologist

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website defines dyslexia as a "brain-based type of learning disability specifically impairing a person's ability to...

Disabilities Advocate Carolyn Schwebel

It would be inaccurate saying 64-year-old Carolyn Schwebel is a one-woman army advocating for the rights of people with disabilities. That's because she has...

Families Heading to Accessible Camps

It's August again, and I'm preparing for another Joni and Friends Family Retreat, which the Vance family has attended nearly every year since 1999. It's for families affected by disability.

Talented Joe Griffin (part 2)

Last column, I featured 14-year-old Floridian Joe Griffin, who acquired a spinal cord injury in 1998 at age 2 after accidentally falling off a...

Mental Illness in America

A January report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration claimed 20 percent of U.S. adults experienced a mental illness in...

Mom Turns Caregiving Into Career

So taken up by their moving story, I'm devoting the next two weeks to Joe and Tish Griffin, 21-year-old son and 60-year-old mother, of...

Blind man shares practical advice

Rick and Alysia Wells live happily in Kernersville, North Carolina. For years, he has been self-employed at home and she has worked as a...

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